People

Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (Silver Spring, Md.): Appointed Thierry Van Bignoot, country director in Guinea, to be associate director of the Asia region, based in Bangkok.

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Baltimore): Appointed David Bancroft, executive director of the Environmental Business Action Coalition (Washington), to be executive director. He succeeds Francis H. Flanigan, who will serve as an adviser.

Associated Grant Makers (Boston): Appointed Ron Ancrum, former director of client services and senior consultant at Third Sector New England (Boston), to be president. This group offers education and support to foundation members in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.

Blake School (Hopkins, Minn.): Appointed Robert F. Knuth, associate vice president for advancement at Coe College (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), to be director of institutional advancement.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (Boston): Appointed Celeste Reid Lee, executive director of WellChild (Boston), to be director of community partnerships.

California State U. at Fullerton: Appointed Carrie Rohlfing, executive director of university advancement at California State Polytechnic U. at Pomona, to be executive director of advancement.

Centre for Development and Population Activities (Washington): Appointed Carol A. Hart, director of partnerships for management and leadership development at the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Management Sciences for Health (Boston), to be Mali country director.

Children’s Shelter (San Antonio): Appointed Amy S. Dameron, director of development at the Winston School San Antonio, to be vice president of development.

Colorado Mountain College Foundation (Glenwood Springs): Appointed Mark Webster, director of development, alumni affairs and student recruitment at Oklahoma State U. Medical School (Tulsa), to be director of development.

Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Appointed John Baer, director of the Dallas International Organ Competition and director of planned giving, to be director of endowment and planned giving as well as the organ competition.

Diabetes Research Institute Foundation (Hollywood, Fla.): Appointed Shelley Niceley Groff, associate general counsel at the U. of Miami, to be associate executive vice president, effective September 1.

Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota (St. Paul): Appointed Tami Petersen, manager of endowments and major and planned giving at the Y.M.C.A. of Metropolitan Minneapolis, to be director of development.

The Foundation Center (New York): Appointed Susan T. Erdey, a writer and editorat the Education Alliance at Brown U. (Providence, R.I.), to be director of communications.

Global Health Ministry (Newtown Square, Pa.): Appointed Thomas F. White, director of development and alumni relations at the U. of the Arts (Philadelphia), to be associate director of fund development.

Howard U. (Washington): Appointed Virgil E. Ecton, senior executive vice president of development at the College Fund/UNCF (Fairfax, Va.), to be vice president for university advancement.

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (New York): Appointed Catherine D. Onyemelukwe, a consultant in Westport, Conn., to be director of development.

Iowa State U. (Ames): Appointed Jim Brehm, executive director of development at U. of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, to be executive director of development for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Michelle Eppert, assistant to the vice president for strategic initiatives, to be assistant director of donor relations.

Levine School of Music (Washington): Appointed Bobbie Burrell, director of finance and administration at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and Geriatric Mental Health Foundation (Bethesda, Md.), to be chief financial officer.

Lutheran Alliance to Create Housing (Seattle): Appointed Russell Beck, executive director of the United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley (Salem, Ore.), to be executive director. He succeeds Kathy Roseth, who will continue to serve as a member of the board.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York): Appointed Harold Holzer, vice president for communications, to be vice president for communications and marketing; Jennifer Oetting, advertising and budget manager, to be advertising and marketing manager; and Elyse Topalian, chief of media relations, to be chief communications officer.

Midwestern U. (Downers Grove, Ill.): Appointed Pete C. Stevenson, former executive director of the American Osteopathic Information Association (Chicago), to be director of development and alumni relations.

Millikin U. (Decatur, Ill.): Appointed Jason Logue, a recent graduate, to be associate director of development.

Minnesota Humanities Commission (St. Paul): Appointed Stanley Romanstein, director of development at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum (Minneapolis), to be president. He succeeds Cheryl Dickson, who is retiring.

Museum of Jewish HeritageA Living Memorial to the Holocaust (New York): Appointed David G. Marwell, director, to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Alfred Gottschalk, who is resigning and will serve as a senior fellow and trustee. The museum also appointed Nikki Fish, director of strategic initiatives of special and capital gifts at UJAFederation of New York, to be director of development.

National Geographic Society (Washington): Appointed John Griffin, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Hearst Magazines International (New York), to be president of magazine publishing and executive vice president, effective September 4. He succeeds Robert Sims, who is retiring.

NAFSA: Association of International Educators (Washington): Appointed Gail A. Hochhauser, senior director of special programs, to be senior director of fund raising and foundation relations.

92nd Street Y (New York): Appointed Eleanor R. Goldhar, director of communications and marketing, to be executive officer for external affairs.

Outward Bound (Garrison, N.Y.): Appointed Richard Bangs, editor at large at Expedia Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.), to be president. (For more on Mr. Bangs, see New on the Job.

Piedmont Hospital (Atlanta): Appointed William Mark Walker, executive director of the Southern Regional Medical Center Foundation (Riverdale, Ga.), to be chief development officer.

Pima County Community College District (Tucson): Appointed Michael Duran, former director of scholarship development at U. of Arizona (Tucson), to be executive director of the Pima Community College Foundation.

Quincy U. (Ill.): Appointed Cynthia Rowland, former administrative assistant to the vice president for academic affairs at Truman State U. (Kirksville, Mo.), to be director of grants and resources.

Rock the Vote (Los Angeles): Appointed Angela M.E. Courtin, deputy director of the federal club at the Human Rights Campaign (Washington), to be development director.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, Ind.): Appointed Mark Richter, executive director of the office of gift and estate planning at Hillsdale College (Mich.), to be vice president for development and external affairs.

Saint Michael’s College (Colchester, Vt.): Appointed Sara Russell, former director of communications and development at Covenant House (New York), to be assistant director for special gifts.

Salisbury State U. (Md.): Appointed Albert Mollica, former vice president for institutional advancement at Cabrini College (Radnor, Pa.), to be vice president for advancement and executive director of the foundation.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Appointed Patricia McLeod, acting director of development, to be director of development.

Signature Theatre (Arlington, Va.): Appointed Sam Sweet, managing director at the Shakespeare Theatre (Washington), to be managing director.

St. Bonaventure U. (N.Y.): Appointed Mary Jane Telford, associate director of annual giving, to be director of constituent relations.

U. of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.): Appointed Thomas P. Gibbons, business-development manager at Wireless Energy Chile Ltd. (Chile), to be director of regional development in the New York office.

U. of Washington (Seattle): Appointed Constance H. Kravas, vice chancellor for university advancement at the U. of California at Riverside, to be vice president for development and alumni relations.

U. of Wisconsin at Eau Claire: Appointed Kimera Way, executive director of development at Michigan Technological U. (Houghton), to be executive director of development.

United Jewish Communities (New York): Appointed Stephen H. Hoffman, president of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, to be chief executive officer. He also will assume the title of president in November, upon the retirement of Stephen D. Solender, president and chief executive officer.

Western U. of Health Sciences (Pomona, Calif.): Appointed Hart T. Roussel, director of development for several schools at Claremont Graduate U. (Calif.), to be vice president of university advancement for major gifts.

Wheelock College (Boston): Appointed Charlotte Sobe, senior development officer for major gifts and planned giving, to be vice president for development and institutional advancement.

Woodberry Forest School (Va.): Appointed Robert P. Morrow III, managing director and group executive for the international corporate-banking group at Bank of America (San Francisco), to be assistant headmaster for external affairs.

GRANT MAKERS

Mary Black Foundation (Spartanburg, S.C.): Appointed Molly Talbot-Metz, campaign director at the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (Columbia), to be program officer.

Richard and Rhoda Goldman Charitable Funds (San Francisco): Appointed Robert T. Gamble, deputy director, to be executive director of the funds and of the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Berry Gordy Family Foundation (Los Angeles): Appointed Hugh C. Burroughs, director of external affairs at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.), to be president and chief executive officer.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.): Announced the retirement of Steven A. Schroeder, president, effective at the end of 2002. A successor has not yet been named.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (Kansas City, Mo.): Appointed Rebecca McCarty, director of operations at the Chief Executive Network (Lawrence, Kan.), to be a program specialist for the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, and Jacqueline Martinez Pullen, a supervisor in the public-affairs department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (Mo.), to be a senior specialist at the center.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Appointed Carl Little, director of public affairs at College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Me.), to be director of communications and marketing.

Philadelphia Foundation: Appointed Jeff Perkins, chief financial officer at the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation, to be vice president for finance and administration.

Pittsburgh Foundation: Appointed William E. Trueheart, president and chief executive officer of Reading Is Fundamental (Washington), to be president and chief executive officer. He succeeds Alfred W. (Burr) Wishart Jr., who will retire December 31.

Rasmuson Foundation (Anchorage): Appointed Eleanor Gordon, assistant to the deans of the Schools of Engineering and Nursing at the U. of Alaska at Anchorage, to be grants administrator.

San Francisco Foundation: Appointed Ann Barden, director of planned giving and interim director of development, to be director of fund development.

Thompson-McCully Foundation (Plymouth, Mich.): Appointed Tonya Allen, associate program officer at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (Flint, Mich.), to be a program officer.

BOARD MEMBERS AND OFFICERS

Akron Community Foundation (Ohio): Elected Marc Merklin, a lawyer with Brouse McDowell (Akron, Ohio), to be chairman of the Board of Trustees. The foundation also elected Rennick Andreoli, president of Fairlawn Associates Limited (Ohio), and Gregory McDermott, president and chief executive officer of Abell & Associates (Akron, Ohio), to be members of the board.

Education Commission of the States (Denver): Elected Kenny Guinn, governor of Nevada, to be chairman.

Johnson Foundation (Racine, Wis.): Elected Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus at Cornell U. (Ithaca, N.Y.), to be a member of the board of trustees.

Maine Community Foundation (Ellsworth): Elected Charles H. Roscoe, a principal at Berry, Dunn, McNeil and Parker (Portland, Me.), to be chairman of the Board of Directors. The foundation also elected the following to the board: David W. King, director of employment at the Aroostook County Action Program (Presque Isle, Me.); Carol Richards, co-founder of the Burma Forum (Los Angeles); James Rier Jr., a consultant based in Machias, Me.; Marilyn Moss Rockefeller, chair of the board of Moss Incorporated (Belfast, Me.); Bruce Schatz, a director and chairman of Macdonald Page Schatz Fletcher & Company (Augusta, Me.); and Robert Woodbury, interim dean of the Muskie School of Public Service and former president of the U. of Southern Maine (Portland).

Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (Little Rock, Ark.): Elected to the Board of Directors: Kay Kelley Arnold, vice president of system governmental affairs at Entergy Corporation (New Orleans), J. Michael Jones, president and chief executive officer at Merchants and Farmers Bank (Dumas, Ark.), and Bob J. Nash, an officer and board member at ShoreBank Corporation (Chicago).

West Central Initiative (Fergus Falls, Minn.): Elected Dave Weaklend, general manager at the Lake Region Electric Cooperative (Pelican Rapids, Minn.), to be a member of the Board of Directors.

CONSULTANTS AND OTHERS

Fairmount Ventures (Philadelphia): Appointed Kim L. Cox, a fund raiser at Lower Merion Counseling Services (Ardmore, Pa.), to be assistant vice president for individual giving, and Carrie R. Glaser, director of development and communications at the Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (Philadelphia), to be assistant vice president.

Frank Russell Company (Tacoma, Wash.): Appointed Dale W. Kindregan, vice president for the institutional-sales division at U.S. Trust Corporation (New York), to be relationship manager for endowments and foundations.

GetActive Software (Berkeley, Calif.): Appointed Chris Mead, a senior account executive for the online-giving division of GivingCapital (Philadelphia), to be senior manager of business development, based in the Washington office of this application service provider.

Greycourt & Company (Pittsburgh): Appointed David G. Hunter, a senior strategic adviser at Rockefeller & Company (New York), to be a principal at this investment firm, based in the Stamford, Conn., office.

Thedatabank (St. Louis Park, Minn.): Appointed Jennifer Smith, executive director of Progressive Minnesota (St. Paul), to be director of strategic solutions.

Widmeyer Communications (Washington): Appointed Naomi Paiss, director of communications at Handgun Control and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (Washington), to be vice president for public affairs.

U.S. Trust Corporation (New York): Appointed Craig C. Wruck, vice president and national manager of charitable and nonprofit services at U.S. Bank (Minneapolis), to be vice president and manager of philanthropic and charitable services in the Minneapolis office.